Bible Prophecy and Inspiration

Luke 6:43-45 – ⁴³ “No good tree bears bad fruit, nor does a bad tree bear good fruit. ⁴⁴ Each tree is recognized by its own fruit. People do not pick figs from thornbushes, or grapes from briers. ⁴⁵ The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks.

Let’s each be honest with ourselves.  What is each of our fruit?

Are we trying to be fruitful or are we just not trying to be a thorn?

I have no doubt that each and every one of us is to try and do his best to bear fruit.  Can we bear fruit on our own?  No.

John 15:1-8 – ¹ “I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. ² He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful. ³ You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. ⁴ Remain in me, and I will remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.

⁵ “I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. ⁶ If anyone does not remain in me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned. ⁷ If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be given you. ⁸ This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.

To bear fruit we have to be in obedience to the Lord.  To be in obedience to the Lord we need to deny ourselves.

When we standing in front of the Lord not one thing that keeps us from bearing good fruit will matter, except we’ll realize what a bad idea those things were.

I left off yesterday on earnestly seeking God.

Many people today are seeking, but are they seeking earnestly?

Today the people in the world seem to want what they want.  It’s like going through a buffet line and grabbing what works for them and leaving the stuff off their plate that doesn’t appeal to them.

It is part of our fallen nature to want to do this.  We have a void to fill spiritually and yet our sinful nature doesn’t match up to how we are really supposed to be, act, or believe.

God promises us that those who earnestly seek Him will find Him.

Proverbs 8:17 – ¹⁷ I love those who love me, and those who seek me find me.

Matthew 7:7-8- ⁷ “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. ⁸ For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.

I see many different religions out there and their doctrine is easily flawed.  What I mean by that is it has nothing to do with taste or preference, but things don’t add up.  When you put these questions out there to the people who believe, they aren’t interested in rather it adds up or not.  That fact of the matter is they are comfortable where they are at.

I don’t know about you, but my normal sinful self doesn’t fit how Go’s Word wants me to act or believe at all.  I’ve had to come to the realization that it makes complete sense and now I have to conform to it.  It’s not naturally who I am.

In the last days we get a warning on this.

2 Timothy 4:2-5-    ² Preach the Word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage—with great patience and careful instruction. ³ For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. ⁴ They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths. ⁵ But you, keep your head in all situations, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, discharge all the duties of your ministry.  

If you want to get your truth from the Buffet line, you better be in the line with the Bible and be ready to eat it all up.  Otherwise picking and choosing while going over to other buffets will eventually lead to untruth.  As someone who has as interest in God, we don’t want it to lead to a lie.

Galatians 3:26-29 – ²⁶ You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus, ²⁷ for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. ²⁸ There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. ²⁹ If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.

Anyone who makes Jesus Lord is now born in the Spirit of our Lord.

Were we born to him when we came out of the womb?  No.  Adam and Eve were Sons and they fell away with their sin.  From that time forward we have been born into sin.  At the age of accountability we are responsible for a choice.  That choice is will we die in our sins, or accept Jesus death in the place of our own and make Him Lord?

What is that age of accountability?  God knows what it is.

Who is accountable considering some have lived and never received the message?  God will judge correctly.

What I do know is if those who have heard the Word and reject the Lord, their fate is not a good one.  We are expected to try and spread the Word of our Lord and we will be accountable on rather we tried to do that.

If you have accepted Jesus as your Lord and Savior, you are a Son of God.  Male or Female you are considered a son.  White, Black, Yellow, Brown, Pink or Orange skin color we are all considered Sons if we have been born again in our Spirit.

We don’t take it serious enough.  It’s a big reason why many of us lose focus.  It’s not real enough to us.  There is no bigger deal and we would do good to remember that and live it.